Buyers Admin Assistant

Sosandar; Wilmslow; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online fashion brand in the UK is looking for a Buyers Admin Assistant to provide comprehensive administrative support to the Buying and Design team. Key responsibilities include maintaining critical paths, placing orders, and supporting sample management. Ideal candidates are organized, detail-oriented team players with a passion for fashion. Benefits include generous holiday allowance, employee discounts, and financial support programs. Join a dynamic team in Wilmslow and be part of a growing fashion success story.

Benefits

25 days paid holiday per year

Holiday buy scheme

Hybrid working after probation

40% employee discount

4% employer pension

Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance 4x your salary

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic, highly organised team player.
• Great attention to detail and a keen eye for fashion.
• Willingness to support the Buying Design team.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the Buying/Design team.
• Create and maintain critical paths and monthly boards.
• Place purchase orders and update on delivery delays.
• Attend fit sessions and chase outstanding samples.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Attention to detail

Team player

Organisational skills

Job description

We are Sosandar. Based in Wilmslow, Cheshire, we’re one of the UK’s fastest growing online fashion brands for chic and stylish women; worn by celebs and influencers galore. We have an amazing opportunity for someone equally as amazing to join our growing team as a Buyers Admin Assistant.

The Buyers Admin Assistant job role is to provide full and highly administrative support to the fashion Buying/Design team.

This Is What You’ll Do

• Create and maintain the critical path/monthly boards, ensuring the smooth running of the whole fashion buying cycle.
• Place purchase orders and complete order amendments including delivery delays, quantity adjustments and price amendments in system.
• Prepare the fit rails in advance of fit session.
• Attend fit sessions & update critical path accordingly.
• Chase outstanding samples on a weekly basis, at all stages of development and update the buying team on status.
• Complete regular competitive shops and report back to wider team to provide a good knowledge and understanding of competitors.
• Maintain the sample library, preparing samples for meetings.
• Support sample handling for cross-functional teams; marketing, press and online.
• Create fashion trend boards for buying meetings.
• Take minutes in buyer meetings and circulate.

Who We’re Looking For

• Enthusiastic, highly organised team player, with strong communication skills.
• Someone with great attention to detail and a keen eye for fashion.
• A willingness to support the Buying Design team in sample management and all admin related tasks.
• A desire to progress within the fashion Buying industry.

What's in it for you?

• 25 days paid holiday pro-rata, plus bank holidays, plus your birthday off!
• Holiday buy scheme
• Hybrid working after probation
• 40% employee discount
• 4% employer pension via salary sacrifice
• Employee Assistance Programme (private GP consultations, prescriptions, physiotherapy, counselling, shopping discounts) for you, your partner and kids
• Life Assurance 4x your salary

Weekly hours: 35 per week

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we celebrate our differences and know that as a team we thrive in a diverse and inclusive environment. Sosandar, therefore, very much welcomes applications from all individuals.

Think you tick all the boxes? Great, we want to hear from you! Please send us your CV and a covering letter to [e-mail] telling us why Sosandar and you are the perfect fit.